SOILING AND PASTURE. 833 
Method of Sotling—One ought to have barns or 
sheds well adapted to the practice and more or less 
dry straw is needed. If he has airy sheds that he 
ean drive through with wagon or cart, arranged 
with racks on either side in which he will place his 
green alfalfa or other forage, a flock can be fed in 
very few minutes. A man with mower, rake and 
team would easily feed and care for 1,000 sheep. A 
lesser number would be a little more costly to feed, 
certainly. When one has a flock of pure-bred ewes 
and wishes to grow the best of lambs he had better 
try this soiling system, with a little dry hay and 
grain in addition to what alfalfa they wish. It is 
a joy to see such lambs as will grow up under such 
a system. It has been often tried on Woodland Farm. 
Keep Sheep from Small Pastures—It must be 
borne in mind when soiling sheep for prevention of 
parasites that they ought to have no run to grass. 
There should be an absolutely clean lot, with no 
weeds, no grass; then the airy, cool shed, the 
feed racks, the water and salt. If there is a small 
grass lot on which they also run it is certain that 
they will pick up myriads of parasites there and then 
the owner will say in disgust, ‘‘Soiling sheep will 
not keep them healthy.’’ It will keep them in health, 
if they cannot get the parasites from the vegetation 
springing up from where their droppings have been 
deposited at some former time. Lambs kept in 
yards absolutely clean, fed on soiling crops, grain 
and hay, will be as big at six months old as they 
